14 DAY TRIAL // Manjaro Xfce 0.8.9 RC3, a Linux distribution based on well-tested snapshots of the Arch Linux repositories and 100% compatible with Arch, has been released with a lot of new features.
Manjaro has slowly become one of the best Arch-based distributions, and the Xfce flavor is powering on with yet another Release Candidate, the third one in the series.
This is a rather curious release, because the previous version had been deemed rather stable and the developers said that they managed to fix all the bugs. Evidently, that didn't happen.
“Normally we would already start to build our final images, so some of you didn’t expect to have a third release candidate popping up. Well, this one has also a rather awkward change. We downgraded our Xorg-Stack back to Xorg-Server 1.14.5 and used FOSS-drivers working with that series. Also we dropped Catalyst 13.1 and 13.4 for good. We still have Catalyst 13.12 in our repos.”
“The second awkward ‘feature’ is: this release candidate is based on our unstable branch. ?!? What the heck? This is the only way to test this change and decide if we would go thru with it,” said the developers.
A number of important changes have been implemented for Pamac 0.9.7. For example, the AUR support now comes with enable and disable support, the pamac-tray refresh period has been changed, and a “view history” entry has been added in the pamac-manager menu.
Also, the distribution is now based on Linux kernel 3.10.30, Mesa has been updated to version 10.0.3, and LibreOffice has been updated to version 4.1.5.
More details about this release can be found in the official announcement. Download Manjaro Xfce 0.8.9 RC3 right now from Softpedia.
Remember that this is a development version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.